Work

Explore 51 quotes about Work

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Dr. Seuss

The King's Stilts

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dr. Seuss. The King's Stilts. Random House, 1939.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "Advice to a Great-Grandson." His 90th birthday celebration. 1958, The Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY, USA. Address.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Three Men in a Boat. London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, ch. 15.

Current Citation

Jerome, Jerome Klapa. "Three Men in a Boat." Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, edited by Jeremy Lewis. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 15.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. John Murray, 1958, ch. 1. Originally published in The Economist, Nov. 1955.

Work liberates.

Anonymous

Words inscribed on the gates of Dachau concentration camp, 1933, and subsequently on those of Auschwitz.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Inscription. Appears over the entrance of various Nazi Germany concentration camps. c. 1940.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Quarles, Francis. Emblemes, Divine and Moral. London, 1635, bk. 2, emblem 2.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

R.G. Collingwood

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Collingwood, Robin George. Speculum Mentis; or The Map of Knowledge. Clarendon Press, 1924, prologue.

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. The Lockman Foundation, 1971. (Ecclesiastes 4:6).

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 1, London: Henry Colburn, 1818, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "The Autobiography." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005, pt. 3.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." The Knickerbocker. New York City: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Nov. 1840, I. 9.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 9.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Statement Type

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 1.

Current Citation

Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 1.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Peter Carr. 22 June 1792.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Ecclesiastes 1:2-3).

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015 act 1, sc. 1.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Edison, Thomas A. Quoted in Thomas A. Edison: The Authentic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor, written by Francis Miller. Stanley Paul, 1932.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Vyasa. The Bhagavad Gita. c. 200 BCE, ch. 2, v. 47-48.

Current Citation

Vyasa. The Bhagavad Gita, translated W. J. Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 2, v. 47-48.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.